‎ Modelling the direct and indirect causal relationships among ‎Dimensions of Epistemic Curiosity, Self-Regulation Failure, and Mind ‎Wandering for University Students. ‎

The current study aimed to build a model for the direct and indirect effects among the dimensions of epistemic curiosity, self-regulation failure, and mind wandering among university students. The number of participants in the study was 503 male and female students from the Faculty of Education, Helwan University. The researcher prepared and applied two tools which included the epistemic curiosity scale and the self-regulation failure scale. The researcher also translated and applied the mind-wandering scale which prepared by Lopez et al. (2023). The results showed the appropriateness of the proposed model for causal relationships between the study variables to the nature of the study data. It also stated that the presence of a direct effect of the dimensions of epistemic curiosity on the dimensions of self-regulation failure. It also showed that the presence of a direct effect of the dimensions of epistemic curiosity on mind wandering.  It also revealed that the presence of a direct effect of the dimensions of self-regulation failure on mind wandering. It also stated that the presence of an indirect effect of the dimensions of epistemic curiosity on mind wandering through the dimensions of self-regulation failure. In addition, the results stated that there were no statistically significant differences in epistemic curiosity, self-regulation failure, and mind wandering attributed to gender (male-female), specialization (scientific-literary), and the two-way interaction between gender and specialization.